The Latest Breaking News from SA Health

Close contacts of COVID-19 cases will no longer have to quarantine, bringing the state into line with interstate rules. Here's what the new rules are and what it means for people already in quarantine.

South Australia's anti-corruption watchdog launches a probe into the way the Central Adelaide Local Health Network — the agency responsible for the Royal Adelaide Hospital — manages and responds to complaints made against it.

South Australia records a big jump in COVID numbers, with 4,856 new cases reported in the past 24 hours. SA Health says the release of the results was delayed by a technical glitch.

Eyre Peninsula and upper Spencer Gulf businesses welcome the lifting of mask and QR-code restrictions for customers but say most staff will keep wearing masks.

An Adelaide nightclub has posted and deleted a video it alleges shows a COVID-positive teenager partying and looking at a phone while at the venue. Ralph MacIntosh claimed he did not see a message about his positive test result until the morning after.

South Australia records 4,595 new COVID cases with the number of patients in hospital jumping to 209 — including eight people in ICU.

Eight Indigenous people have died after contracting COVID-19 in South Australia since the beginning of the pandemic, SA Health reveals.

South Australia's new Labor government axes four senior bureaucrats appointed by the former Liberal government — including the head of SA Health — as incoming Premier Peter Malinauskas marks his own stamp on the public service.

South Australia records 4,140 new cases of COVID-19 and three deaths linked to the virus, as the Health Minister looks to increase hospital capacity.

Cases of Japanese encephalitis virus have been detected in three additional piggeries in South Australia, taking the total number of affected piggeries in the state to four.

The incoming health minister says the jobs of departmental chief executives will be up for discussion over coming days. It comes as the former premier trails in his eastern Adelaide seat, while two other former ministers' electorates are also in doubt.